[Julie W.]

Does anyone know the symptoms of prescription drug addiction? I have a friend who has been to the emergency room three times since February. The first time was legitimate, but the two other times were questionable (a small cyst, a broken toe). This is not including follow-up visits that included refills of painkillers.

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[Emma25399]

Any number of web sites could inform you of the different symptoms of prescription drug abuse. However, people who seek medical care on a too-frequent basis for imagined illness and injury may be exhibiting signs of mental disease. Munchausen Syndrome, so named for a German soldier who suffered from it, drives its victims to pester medical care practitioners to the point where they are administered tests, surgeries and medications that may not be necessary. It has more to do with wishing to be nursed and cared for than any pleasure derived from pharmaceutical abuse.

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[FreddFezzo]

As a foot doctor in D.C., I can tell you what you already know: That the only difference is the prescription; otherwise, the drugs would cost more on the street. If your friend goes to different doctors all the time, chances are the drugs are asked for by name, and the doctor has no idea they were already gotten from another doctor. Also, if too many prescriptions are written, a ‘central clearinghouse’ knows the patient is getting these pills from all the doctors involved, and the doctors are called and informed of this. Try to stop this if you can; this is a friend of yours, and he/she may get caught, never to receive more again.

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[Amber31541]

My brother has a problem with taking excessive amounts of prescription drugs, especially Xanex and Vicadin. The first change in his behavior was his blurred speech. As his addiction worsened, he no longer cared about hygiene or the way he looked. When he didn’t have any pills, he was highly agitated and constantly roaming the house, rummaging through cabinets and drawers, trying to find anything to take. When my mother noticed that a brand-new bottle of Tylenol PM she had placed the day before in a bedside table drawer was empty, we began to check the other over-the-counter medications we kept in the house and discovered that anything that ‘might cause drowsiness’ was emptied as well. He did not leave the house for almost four months, and the last straw was when he began to steal from us. When my brother is ‘pilled out,’ he is this other person. By ‘pilled out’ I mean having 10 or more Xanex in his system. He once took a horse tranquilizer and blacked out in the bathroom, striking his chin on the corner of the vanity and busting it open. Another sign that he was taking pills was that he would become overly emotional, sometimes weepy and other times hateful and aggressive.

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